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The pandemic revealed the fractures, biases, and inadequacies of our social systems. Education was not immune.

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

Bret Victor, beast of burden

Bret Victor, beast of burden

"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,

Once you recognize yourself as part of the river, now you realize you’re responsible for the river as a whole.”

Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

ubiquitous connectivity and our media environments naturally lend themselves toward an influencer-and-fandom dynamic. If the system is built to inspir

In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n

…and look. I think that it is perfectly reasonable for people to be normal music fans and to have a normal relationship to music. But…if you want to g

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re

The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over

A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina

limited scale allows for sanity in both product development and the authoring of books. If you don’t need a billion users or a million readers, sudden

Things are weird. Play with the weirdness.

Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all o

Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,

Rostra

most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time

Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one,  Man’s Search For Meaning,  was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote  Man’s Search For Mea

How to Be Successful

Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”